Sadness Quotes

A tragedy need not have blood and death; it's enough that it all be filled with that majestic sadness that is the pleasure of tragedy.
Jean Racine

Death, Enough, Blood

Music is amazing. There's some metaphysical comfort where it allows you to be isolated and alone while telling you that you are not alone... truly, the only cure for sadness is to share it with someone else.
Wayne Coyne

Music, Alone, Amazing

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.
Eric Clapton

Music, Men, Experience

God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet.
Neale Donald Walsch

God, Laughter, Sweet

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness.
Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Doubt, Start, Beginning

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.
Brooke Shields

Death, Pain, Father

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.
Jennifer Aniston

Pain, Parents, Acting

It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Gertrude Stein

Friendly, Though, Simply

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.
Henry Van Dyke

Life, Society, Ideas

I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
Michael Caine

Age, Men, Woman

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.
Leonard Cohen

Life, Down, Joy

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Great, Father, Excuses

In my deepest parts of sadness, I'm always making a joke or being sarcastic.
Lea Thompson

Making, Joke, Deepest

It's usually a big kind of vent of frustration or anger or sadness that puts me in the right frame of mind to write. It's such a cliche to say that artists write when they're down, but it's true for me. It's a relief to get out what's eating away at my heart or my soul or my head.
Ellie Goulding

Anger, Mind, Heart

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race.
Neale Donald Walsch

Great, History, Human

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
Eugene Ionesco

Death, Fear, Society

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.
Elton John

Political, Dying, Hiv

In a world where there is so much sadness and so much to be afraid of, good things do happen to people. Romance is still something we can find even if we're not consciously looking for it.
Kathleen Quinlan

Good, Happen, Find

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?
Mahalia Jackson

Same, Songs, Jewish

A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.
Imelda Staunton

Work, Important, Light

I had sadness for breakfast.
Andy Milonakis

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.
Kevin Bacon

Anger, Down, Challenge

I can mourn internally, just be quiet about it. I have my moments but I'm not a real, expressive person, especially when it comes to like sadness.
Faith Evans

Real, Person, Quiet

There is something sinister, something quite biographical about what I do - but that part is for me. It's my personal business. I think there is a lot of romance, melancholy. There's a sadness to it, but there's romance in sadness. I suppose I am a very melancholy person.
Alexander McQueen

Business, Person, Personal

The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.
Edmond de Goncourt

Age, Men, Truth

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.
Loretta Lynn

Used, Growing, Guess

I think often sadness is a great place to get songs from.
Sarah McLachlan

Great, Place, Often

I'm happy, I would say that I'm one of the happiest people I know but I've certainly had periods of profound sadness, depression and heartache and those are the kind of things that are interesting to me to write about.
Richard Marx

Happy, Depression, Write

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.
Duncan Sheik

Beautiful, Healing, Darkness

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
Anita Brookner

Love, Romantic, May

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